Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.